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Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun May 1 12:11:33 2005

Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 12:08:37 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504270802560.1225-100000@nucleus.nacs.net>; from Greg Boehnlein <damin@nacs.net> on Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:06:51AM -0400
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:06:51AM -0400, Greg Boehnlein wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> > I've been there -- I know how I feel about it -- but I'd love
> > to know how ISP operations folk feel about this.
> 
> Of course Bruce Schneider is going to allocate ISP's handling security so 
> he can sell them more of his crappy Counterpane products. I find it 
> offensive that Mr. Schneider would categorize ISPs as lazy and 
> unresponsible, and it does nothing but encourage me to sell anything BUT 
> Counterpane to my customers.

He doesn't, as noted, sell much by way of "products"... and please
spell his name correctly.

Cheers,
-- jr 'or is that the New Age spelling?' a
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